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Well, as some of you know I'm rebuilding my yard, which was Concord, NH. I was talking with some friends however, and they suggested I combine the classification and staging yards. On the ride home I got thinking about that. Here's my new operations plan for you to critique, the actual yard track plan is coming after that.The yard will be located in White River Junction, actually across the river in Lebanon, NH. The track to the West will go across the river, and in my plan, trains will just run North on trackage rights bound for Montreal. To the east is my mainline to Concord, NH. Those who are familier with my layout will note that this is changing a lot, as the yard is on the West end of the modeled section, instead of the Eastern end. Now the modeled trains will head through New Poland first, which used to be the last town before the staging yard. Part of the new yard is located on the former location of the staging yard.In sessions, any train exiting the West end (bound for Montreal) of the layout out of the yard will reappear as a train from Concord, to the East, and vice versa. There will probably be one mixed train in each direction, and a steady flow of bare-table intermodal trains in one direction. (The loaded cars go a differant route, I'm using modeler's license here because I don't have sufficient funds to buy trailers) The local will still be a turn, running from White River Jct. (I abbreviate it to WRJ) Eastbound (yes, in the opposite direction out of the yard that it used to) to Stude, NH where it runs around on the passing siding and goes back. The pulpwood yard just east of Stude is also served by this train. I would like to have transfer runs from the other railroads serving WRJ, but I lack staging capacity for these trains west of the yard, unless I carry over the location formerly known as West Concord (where the pulpwood yard is) to the WRJ end of the railroad and add a siding to visibly stage a transfer run from NECR. Remember that my yard is actually Lebanon, but I'll name it WRJ to avoid confusion from people not familier with the geography of the area.Any comments appreciated! <hr />Here is the yard design. It is only a schematic. The blue line is the backdrop, and the gray box is the locomotive maintanance shop, and the short tracks near it are the locomotive servicing facility.  The DDWH interchange is located in a town on the other side of the backdrop. I'm going to run the tracks through a building, and put other structures and details in front of it to draw eyes away from it. The track doubles as the New Poland (just East of the yard) team track. It is just there so I can plan it out, it can't be moved and doesn't need to be factored in as part of the yard. The rest of the yard from front to back is:MainlineA/D 1A/D 2Runaround/switcher pocketClassification 1Classification 2Classification 3/Possible Intermodal track There are crossovers just East of the yard (the yard lead joins the main track to go over the pass) but none west of it for switcher use. Trains coming from the West can easily come in on either track, courtesy of a pair of crossovers in Stude (the town is East on the map). [IMG]http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee261/TrainManTy/WRJYardV1.jpg[/IMG] Any thoughts? I'm pretty happy with the plan so far, except the west ladder doesn't look right somehow. I can't think of how else to add the classification tracks though. The switcher would probably work the west end.
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